The Cambridge companion to the city in literature /
McNamara, Kevin R.,1958-editor.
"From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which allegorical cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period, while subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the relationship between urban landscape and memory. These later chapters explore the form of the literary city and its response to social and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural, and linguistic outsiders"--
"From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which allegorical cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period, while subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the relationship between urban landscape and memory. These later chapters explore the form of the literary city and its response to social and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural, and linguistic outsiders"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Kevin R. McNamara -- 1. Celestial cities and rationalist utopias / Antonis Balasopoulos -- 2. The city in the literature of antiquity / Susan Stephens -- 3. The medieval and early-modern city in literature / Karen Newman --  4. The spectator and rise of the modern metropole /  Alison O'Byrne -- 5. Memory, desire, lyric: the flâneur / Catherine Nesci -- 6. Social science and urban realist narrative / Stuart Culver -- 7. The socio-economic outsider: labor and the poor / Bart Keunen and Luc de Droogh -- 8. The urban nightspace / James R. Giles -- 9. Masses, forces, and the urban sublime / Christophe den Tandt -- 10. Fragment and form in the city of modernism / Arnold L. Weinstein --11. Cities of the avant-garde / Malcolm Miles -- 12. Urban dystopias / Rob Latham and Jeff Hicks -- 13. Postmodern cities / Nick Bentley -- 14. Colonial cities / Seth Graebner -- 15. Postcolonial cities / Caroline Herbert -- 16. The translated city: immigrants, diasporans, and cosmopolitans / Azade Seyhan -- 17. Gay and lesbian urbanity / Gregory Woods -- 18. Some versions of urban pastoral / Kevin R. McNamara and Timothy Gray.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Literature and society.